Reference to the above mentioned subject, and in tribute to the book of God and the holy profit, and in compliance to law order # 17 …, which states on banning porn sites and site offensive to the ethics and Islamic regulations, and since there is a site that sings the Holy Quran, God Forbid, and publishes offensive photos of the holy prophet by searching for “Quran singed and composed”Â in the below mentioned website, therefore you are requested to act upon and block this site immediately.

1- YouTube.com

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This is how many Kuwaities started their day. By reading that the site which forms 15% of Kuwaiti traffic, according to one of the ISPs, and the #3 site on all Kuwait traffic according to Alexa, is being blocked, because a minority have published offensive contents. While this is prety rediculous, it’s also pretty much expected. In programming we always say, you give the wrong input, you will get the wrong output. Samething here. You put the wrong person on the job, you get the wrong decisions.

Why do I say that? Is it because I am less of a muslim? Well, maybe I’m not strictly religious, but voting against banning the site comes from various other different reasons:

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Referring to YouTube as an offensive site that sings and composes the Holy Quran is a mistake against them. It makes it seem like this is the primary function of the site, they are doing it them selves, and that they are backing i up. Not like it’s few users who might have uploaded this video unnoticed.

Look at the bright side, our Holy Prophet said. When he saw a dead smelly dog, he looked at the white teethes he has, as a lesson to his friends. Now, YouTube is a lot more than a dead smelly dog here. It has millions of videos, some pointless, some fun, and many others are religious that you and your Islamic friends use on day to day basis. A search for Quran by it self brings 244,000 results! Now that seem a lot for an anti-Islamic site to me!

If we hate offensive content to our religion, why do we allow offense on others? What goes around comes around. Our TV, websites, Mosques, and all do show, support, and call for fight against non-muslims, calling them athiests, and our subscription based TV Channels broadcast movies more offensive, making some holy prophets like comedians God Forbid. This is officially estbalished company in Kuwait doing this. Why isn’t there anything to stop it? Local TV is not Ministry of Communicaiton responsibility. Well you can block their site for a start!

I got a email about this subject, saw the video, filed a complain request like any mature person would do to YouTube, and now, if I try to watch the video, this is what I get:
Â “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

To prove how silly it is if this blocking takes place, at the time of writing this article, searching for Quran Singed and Composed in Arabic would bring zero results! Instead, this is what I got:

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If they still wanna move forward, despite that YouTube did really act upon the video, listned to people complains, and there isn’t really any such videos right now, then I have a list of suggestions to push our country furter forward, carefully selected from Alexa top 100 sites in Kuwait:

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Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search: The head of search to all evil things. Block them.

Facebook: There are some athiest and anti-Islamic groups. Don’t try to reach them, educate them, or show your thoughts. Just leave the whole site.

Maktoob.com: Arabic online forums, e-marriage could be abused for dating, movies, horoscopes. This is not Islamic is it?

Kooora.com: All about soccer, mostly European soccer where teams show sponsored Beer and wine ads on their Shirts.

RapidShare: Sharing is not monitored, you can’t tell what your people are sharing. And someone might be secretly sharing offensive content. There must be some of it. Or at least, just to be on the safe side

Travian.ae: Obiously, why should you let your people play as Romanian soldiers in an online game, helping the Romanian empire expand it’s grounds online, when they could be fighting as Islamic ones.

Hi5: Friendship site.

Blogger: Where everything is possible to post, and where we protest against site blocking.

Microsoft.com: It’s a jewish company! What could be worse? Let’s all use Sakhr computers.

Tagged: Again, has offensive videos section

Wikipedia: Anyone can edit an article about anything. Westerns are controlling the article. Kill it

zShare: Again, uncontrollable private file sharing site

Mozook: Online videos, love banners on main page

4Shared: Private shared videos could go offensive unnoticed

Q8yat: Forum that has Islamic section, umm section for wives and mothers. But hey, there is Halima Boland celebrity in this banner, and then there is a makeup section!

Alwatan: They have a daily comic, and one character is Islami one which they keep making fun of!

bramjnet: Hmm… site is down. We might as well give him a shot of mercy just to make sure

6rb: Songs, no need to check it even

Orkut: Another social site, encouracing opposite sex to meet

Flickr: If Searching reveals offensive photos, this must be one source for them

Piczo: Mix of photos, music, and videos. Contain offensive, so it is offensive

Metacafe: Has offensive videos as well. Ohh yes, it’s good for soccer goals as well, but still

Photobucket: Photo sharing again

ImageShack: Photo sharing. We already established this is bad enough

Koutbo6: Hmmm… challenging. There is this banner at the top for Eid movies. Those movies has girls in them, and those girls are not respecting our ethics. I don’t think this site is good for Muslims after all

NBK: Reba! non-Islamic loans promoted, and some girl pictures show up. Ohh, and it hurts KFH business also. So block it

SweetIM: Hmm.. nothing infront, but people use those emoticon icons to chat with opposite sex maybe. Let’s not make harsh decisions, we’ll look into it later

Amazon: You can buy EVERYTHING. Everything is certainly not good.

Jeeran: Online community to corrupt arab society

MediaFire: File sharing. Could share harmful files unnoticed

HawaaWorld: It’s an Islamic name, Islamic site, some Islamic hints. Seems good. But they have a makeup section. Na’h. Sorry, not allowed

KFH: If the internet was only KFH! Allow

OzQ8: Songs. Block

KNCC.com: Just censor movies, just ban them. (Didn’t they change their brand to Cinescape. KNCC is still higher in rank :))

Kuwait Stock Exchange: OK, this is gonna make me on wanted list. But they do trade in companies that run non-Islamic investments. Telecom do sell songs, make draws, bring celebrities and all. This is a door to ivnest in wrong companies. I say we block it

DailyMotion: Hey, you forgot that one also. Like YouTube

WordPress: What people use to create their own blog. BAD BAD

VIP600: Videos. Celebrity Videos. Wrong

Friendster: Make friendship with opposite sex and western world. Never!

DVD4Arab: Has DVDs and songs section

Al-Qabas: They have movies and arts section. Why? Encouraging people to watch those movies.Â

MySpace: Again, online social sites

Q8Car: There you go. 2 whole sites now open to browse. Just make sure you don’t buy Jewish cars please

Alazrag: A complete site supporting those above-knee short players. And besides, we don’t want people to know we still have national team or intend ot have one. Block it

Pheww… I hope I’m getting paid for this listing. Ohhh and, you may want to consider blocking my site as well!

Snip out of it I say. If you’re gonna treat a blog like a published book. A writer is responsible for a comment even if he deletes it 5 minutes later. One user can ban #3 website in Kuwait, then just write down laws banning all community driven websites, and in fact all individual sites. Any site must be pre-approved and monitored by the ministry, and the whole internet is basically a directory listing of approved sites. That list shouldn’t wrap so many pages I can tell you that.

I am personally positive this is only a matter of time before the rule is revoked, just like it was with Bahrain few years ago. However the matter still stands. On what basis do individual decisions change the way of life of other thousands. On what basis is the filter being made? Why YouTube? Why not other? Was there a contact to resolve the matter before blocking it? We can’t just go turn into China, if that’s what you want.

Below is a list of other protesting bloggers, and I suggest all of them exchange links to the story tohighlight the issue more. This can’t pass by easily.

I AM religious, and I go to YouTube all the time. There is a lot of content there that would be offensive to me – if I cared to look at it, which I DON’T! But my niece sends me videos of my adorable grand-nephew on YouTube, family videos, etc. I look up old songs, even religious songs.

I posted one quickly last week, the Hilary Clinton / Palin skit from SNL and told everyone to look quickly before it was removed! Some of the stuff is removed for copyright reasons.

It’s just hard for me to believe this is Kuwait. Kuwait the modern, Kuwait the tolerant, Kuwait the cross-roads of ancient times, Kuwait the educated.

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Bashar

Intlxpatr: Thanks. I read your post. What you say is absolutely true. The offensive videos are no longer there, and we are using their technology to promote our religion, and expect them just to keep supporting us, while we block them!

maryam

1st thing I did I checked the youtube.com ;P
The problem is having that person in that place, the issue isn’t with the website is with the content and as I know youtube.com doesn’t publish “porn” as the memo claims! and simply just go to the site and file that this video is offensive and they’ll remove it. better yet, have a whole department called (youtube.com detection/prevention dept.) to monitor and file complains!!
I laughed while reading the suggested sites, gotta have a look at them before they actually take you up on this and block away. Imagine if all traffic actually went through MOC, a day will come where only KFH is allowed .. wait that’s local, you won’t even be allowed outside the country … LOL now that’s a scary impossible thought but I believe they’ll have someone sign on this too 3adee -I’m having too much fun outta this- ;D

I just confirmed from our main contact with the MoC people, that he talked to the same person whoâ€™s name was signed at the bottom of the memo which was published in alJarida, asking him what should we do? should we proceed with the block? and the reply was and I quote â€œwait, the memo is on hold at the momentâ€.

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Bashar

Thanks for that tip. Memo should be shredded to pieces. It’s not official without required signatures